Sentences with phrase «poor rural districts»

In a decision designed to spark a transformation of New Jersey's school finance formula, the state board of education concluded last week that poor rural districts have been shortchanged in a state known nationally as a leader for providing billions of dollars in extra aid and programs to its poor urban districts.

The state's highest court this month ruled against a coalition of poor rural districts, which claimed that significant differences between rich and poor jurisdictions violated the right to an education under the state constitution.

South Carolina has hired Edison Schools Inc. to try to improve student achievement in the struggling Allendale County school system, a poor rural district entering its fifth school year under state control.

Not exact matches

Union Councils in a rural, resource - poor district in the northwest province of Pakistan with high infant mortality

Democratic incumbents from poor, rural districts simply didn't have the resources to defend themselves against the onslaught of outside spending — and national Democrats didn't call in the cavalry.

They say they've already cut back and laid off and that a cap would erode arts, sports and special programs, and hurt poorer and rural districts, which are more dependent on state aid than rich ones with greater property wealth.

Would you commit to fully funding schools, especially in poor inner city and rural districts, and how would you fund it?

Cuomo in January proposed a tweak that would boost the total amount by 1 percent, or $ 428 million, but critics have said that his plan funnels money to more wealthy districts, thus depriving rural, poor districts — including those in the Adirondack Park — both their rightful share and relief for taxpayers.

For poorer people living in rural districts rates of control were particularly low.

Districts rich or poor and urban or rural, teachers and administrators, equipment suppliers, consultants, building contractors, pension funds — along with the advocacy organizations that everywhere push for more school spending — can detect such opportunities for gain and join forces, at least up to the point at which remedies are specified and the bigger pie begins to be sliced.

The five - judge court ruled unanimously Oct. 8 that the state's contributions for teacher pay produce such wide disparities in salaries that poor, rural districts can not compete for and retain well - qualified teachers, and thus can not provide the equal educational opportunities required by the state constitution.

Many of the nation's teachers, especially in the poorest urban districts and in the 5,000 school districts classified as rural, had fallen short of that standard.

Proponents claim ed tech can enhance learning, bring educational material to resource - poor districts and solve the educational difficulties faced by students in rural areas.

«Tennessee's rural areas and poorer districts are especially dependent upon these funds, as their local budgets are unable to provide additional support for professional learning,» McQueen wrote.

The proposed referendum restrictions would disproportionately affect declining - enrollment districts and poorer districts, especially rural districts, the school board says.

In the process, Obama and Duncan are retreating from the very commitment of federal education policy, articulated through No Child, to set clear goals for improving student achievement in reading and mathematics, to declare to urban, suburban, and rural districts that they could no longer continue to commit educational malpractice against poor and minority children, and to end policies that damn children to low expectations.

Especially in urban and rural school districts, low salaries and poor working conditions often contribute to the difficulties of recruiting and keeping teachers, as can the challenges of the work itself.

Poor - performing urban districts, more than suburban and rural schools, often are targeted for takeover by their respective states, as documented in some recent cases:

But many districts are quietly feeling the same squeeze, including in poor rural and suburban communities.

Small rural and suburban public school districts are a poor fit for President Trump's proposed private - school voucher system.

«Typically what we see happening is many of those teachers, unless they have connections to some rural area or some poor - performing school district, they typically choose to go to some of the districts with more resources, with lower student - teacher ratios, with leadership that understands and recognizes the value and importance of supporting teachers.»

Digital learning materials, high capacity broadband, data use, and related professional learning are unevenly distributed across the country — falling especially short of needed levels in rural and poor communities — and greater federal funding is needed to help states and districts address this inequity.

Two - thirds live in families in which at least one adult works, and the percentage of poor students in many rural districts equals that in inner - city districts.

Since school districts are dependent primarily on local property taxes and often have a depressed economic base, this investment helped the Institute demonstrate how important it is for the legislature to increase funding to poor, rural schools in the state.

can tell you what it takes to turn around academically distressed schools in a poor, rural school district: persistence.

The K — 12 leadership team for the Augusta School District in Arkansas can tell you what it takes to turn around academically distressed schools in a poor, rural school district: persDistrict in Arkansas can tell you what it takes to turn around academically distressed schools in a poor, rural school district: persdistrict: persistence.

These systems flagrantly favored school districts in affluent white suburbs and discriminated against poor districts in urban and rural areas with high minority populations.

The poorest districts are rural communities scattered all over the country, from Ohio and Kentucky to Texas and Mississippi.

These cuts fall disproportionately on poor, rural districts that lack the local funding base necessary to replace the revenue eliminated by state cuts.

The response to next week's advocacy day has also been slower in North Carolina's poorer and more rural districts, areas in which advocates say legislative cuts are arguably most harmful because the local tax base can't make up the shortfall.

I work in a poor, rural school district.

The project is located in the rural Neno and Dowa districts, which have suffered from land and soil degradation historically brought about by deforestation and poor land management practices.

The cash is expected to lower the burden on prosecutors, especially in poorer and rural districts, where the workload discrepancy is stark.»